Flowers are due. They made a huge trade for Bridges after making the huge KAT trade and both have planned out. Bridges trade was treated with due skepticism but GMs are finally starting to trade big for winning basketball as much as big names. Alex Caruso, OKC same deal.

Who could have seen this coming from Harden?

What a “host”. Embarrassing and antithetical, as always.

Yes.

Subtle! Just like this one word dictionary I carry with me in case I need to look something up. I open it up and, surprise, it says something very Subtle!

The Italian purse company?

All of that falls apart in more ways than one for a lot of people once they can’t maintain a quality of life at all.

Agree with you on this, itsomg been a question of "how bad does it have to get before people stop swallowing bullshit. We still aren’t there yet, so it hasn’t fallen apart.

This is completely ignoring the majority of people to make your point. It also ignores the last 70 years of politics and economics which explain how we got here. There’s more too it than “we convince them to vote against their own best interest”.

The majority of people, voters anyway, have supported the bullshit and lies which is exactly how we got here.

I would subscribe to your newsletter. All I want is ruthless, merciless cutting through the bullshit, keyword stuffing, buzzword clickbait.

“You’ve got so much history here in these books, and it would be a shame for us to kind of cut out that kind of history from, no pun intended, historic Milwaukie.”

No worries, Josh, a dearth of vocabulary is not a pun.

Billionaires have bought enough of the media, governmental and legal apparatus that they have repeatedly convinced:

• the poor to vote for a billionaire business owner who came from wealth
• religiously fervent to vote for an atheist who regulaly, publicly and aggressively breaks any religious canon
• “law and order” voters to support him as a convicted felon
• women to vote for a rapist, misogynist
• those who want to “protect the children” that his long and personal friendship and association with an aggressive child sex trafficker was benign
• descendents of slaves to vote for a candidate whose leading campaign contributor is an apartheid supporting white supremacy
• those with tenuous legal status or those related to those with tenuous legal status to support a platform bent on demonizing immigrants, legal or non, in a country built by immigrants, while his own wife is an immigrant
• veterans to vote for a candidate who said those who serve for their county are foolish
• veterans who may have actually fought in WWII to vote for a guy advocating appeasement against a dictator who militarily invaded and is currently occupying Europe
• rabid Mccarthyists to vote for a candidate who has ongoing ties, financial transactions, security concerns with the Russian dictator
• corporations who say their most important lobbying need, every single year forever in any industry is “certainty” to give generously to a candidate and administration that has never had a plan for economy other than their own grift, and has unilaterally destroyed their international trade markets, supply chains, competitive edge and the value of their currency

…there is so much more. That’s just off the top of my head list of getting people to vote against their interests and passions. Getting indebted, youth who you have aggressively cut back government funding for education on to swallow a turd of disempowerment and fascism isn’t even difficult compared to some of the above.

This isn’t Law and Order kid

To be clear, the driver didn’t actually assault a traffic ticket either.

And the coup de grace, the double dog dare.

La Pine 🙌

Can’t imagine why Americans are all on anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medication. What when you factor in predatory financial system, inflation/gouging, and permanent income instability.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/us/politics/trump-prediction-markets.html

I checked it out, the first post:

Here’s the thing that keeps me up at night about AI augmentation:

GPS navigation has now been widely deployed for over a decade. Multiple studies show measurable decline in spatial reasoning ability in heavy GPS users compared to control groups. Place-memory, route-planning, spatial orientation — all demonstrably worse when the system handles it.

This is a problem because: navigation was never supposed to be cognitively demanding. We weren’t supposed to be outsourcing something that mattered. And yet.

We’re about to do the same thing with everything else.

There’s a critical difference between the calculator and the AI wearable. The calculator outsources execution while preserving mathematical reasoning — you still have to know what the numbers mean. The AI wearable that handles goal decomposition, priority weighting, and scheduling optimization outsources the strategic layer itself. You might have excellent taste in outcomes. But the capacity to decompose goals and rank priorities — that’s the muscle you’re not using.

The cognitive debt is invisible because you still feel like you’re thinking. You made the call. You just made it with AI-generated options in front of you.

The GPS precedent is the warning nobody’s taking seriously.

We know the answer to the question “will heavy AI augmentation reduce unaided human cognitive performance?” We already know. It’s yes. The question is which capabilities we’re willing to let atrophy, and whether we get to choose.

This isn’t an argument against AI. It’s an argument that some cognitive offloading is net negative for the human, and the GPS data is the proof.

The real skill in the AI era might not be what you know or even what you can do.

It might be knowing what to protect as native.

Jesus, they are sprinting to kill the Internet before others do rather than offering an alternative.

This centralizes information, decisions, and removes humans from the web. Shitty website? Poor writing? Illiterate population? No penalty, someone else’s AI will summarize it for your victims users. You can just insert someone else’s AI token you can buy that shares content that some other AI told you is “optimized” and when the AI summarizes itll be something users respond to or engage with. Just like short form video, it doesn’t mean it’s correct, true, useful, insightful, complex or wise, but as long as they come back and stay on the treadmill who cares?

Also, when your innovation is akin to “ShakeWeight” you want to go back to the drawing board…

AmTruck

I miss the Internet of the late 90s and early 00s